Schiebener Johannes, Schulte Frank Paul, Hofmann Jens, Brand Matthias
a General Psychology: Cognition, University of Duisburg-Essen , Duisburg , Germany.
Appl Neuropsychol Adult. 2014;21(4):241-59. doi: 10.1080/09084282.2013.798735. Epub 2013 Oct 1.
In neuropsychological decision-making research, several different tasks are used to measure decision-making competences in patients and healthy study participants. Unfortunately, the existing tasks are often inflexible for modification, use different scenarios, and include several gambling cues. Therefore, comparisons between participants' performances in different tasks are difficult. We developed the Truck Dispatcher Framework (TDF), in which different decision-making tasks can be designed within one unitary, flexible, and real-world-oriented story line. To test the story line, TDF analogues of three standard decision-making tasks (Game of Dice Task, Probability-Associated Gambling task, Iowa Gambling Task) were developed. In three studies with brain-healthy participants, the behavior in standard decision-making tasks and the TDF analogues of those tasks were compared. Similar behaviors indicate that the TDF tasks measure decision making appropriately. Thus, the TDF is recommended for experimental and clinical research because it allows for examining decision-making competences in tasks with different demands that take place within one unitary story line.
在神经心理学决策研究中，几种不同的任务被用于测量患者和健康研究参与者的决策能力。不幸的是，现有的任务往往难以灵活修改，使用不同的场景，并且包含多个赌博线索。因此，很难比较参与者在不同任务中的表现。我们开发了卡车调度员框架（TDF），在这个框架中，可以在一个统一、灵活且以现实世界为导向的故事情节中设计不同的决策任务。为了测试故事情节，我们开发了三个标准决策任务（掷骰子任务、概率相关赌博任务、爱荷华赌博任务）的TDF类似物。在三项针对脑健康参与者的研究中，比较了标准决策任务中的行为与这些任务的TDF类似物中的行为。相似的行为表明TDF任务能够适当地测量决策。因此，推荐将TDF用于实验和临床研究，因为它允许在一个统一的故事情节中考察不同需求任务中的决策能力。
